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I would not go that far but most people recognize that we should be good stewards of our environment. If it were automatic 80% of people living in NJ would not be within 3 miles of a superfund site. There has to be a balance.
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CPT Jack Durish
I'll go one step farther: We are good stewards of the environment. We can afford it. We keep trying to encourage developing nations to not make the same mistakes we made while building the world's most successful economy, but they simply dismiss us as trying to hold them back from duplicating our success. Go ahead. Travel around the world. See how developing nations rape the environment. Look at China, India, Mexico, et al.
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SSG Jessica Bautista
CPT Jack Durish - One can make the argument that we caused those environmental mistakes as our economy was bolstered by the cheap labor in those countries.
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CPT Jack Durish
SSG Jessica Bautista - Ah, blame America. Certainly you can make that argument and find many fools to agree with you. The sad truth is that wealth in most nations is accumulated through exploitation and theft. When people in these places look at the great wealth of America, they assume that we have acquired it by the same method. But they are wrong. Wealth is created through labor and investment. Until they understand that, they will never succeed.
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SSG Jessica Bautista
CPT Jack Durish - What makes you assume that we're not "most nations"? How many years did we have slave labor? Cheap labor from China, Mexico, India, any country in Southeast Asia? Our imports use up resources in other countries, allowing us to preserve our own and pay less for them. How are we not exploiting developing nations?
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SSG Jessica Bautista - i actually meant that as a joke but pressed post by accident. But true some of her history does suggest that
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She is the One that Said that "If He Wasn't My Dad I'd Mace Him". Probably his Best Choice for his Cabinet.
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